I HAVE CONSIDERED CAREFULLY THE AMOUNT OF BRANDY H.R.H. TAKES
GULL
(Sir William Withey, 1816-1890, Physician to Queen Victoria, suspected to be 'Jack the Ripper'), Francis Manley SIMS (died 1902, Physician) and Sir Oscar CLAYTON (1816-1892, Surgeon to Prince of Wales)
Small collection of material relating to the treatment of the Duchess of Cambridge comprising a Fine Autograph Letter Signed signed in full (William W. Gull) to "My dear Madam"
regretting that he "could not at once reply to your note. I have considered carefully the amount of brandy H.R.H. takes and do not think it could be much reduced below the four table spoonfuls. I of course assume that these are measured in a measure glass. I would however suggest a diminution at noon to one teaspoonful. At two o'clock 2 teaspoonfuls may be given instead of four which is the tablespoonful and at 8 o'clock the table spoonful might be reduced to the same extent. This would be in all about 1/4th the induction leaving that given at night & in the night without change. I will also say that the amounts taken off may any day be re-added if any circumstance seems to call for it. I have communicated with Mr Hewitt ...", 4 sides 8vo., headed 74 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square 14th April 1877 together with a detailed account of the patient's treatment in another hand "H.R.H. has a pint & a half of Asses milk in the course of 24 hours, ¼ of a pint with coffee, at or about 7-7.30-8 or 8.30 according to her waking. ¼ of a pint, with tea, and with that, a boiled or poached egg, a little bread & butter - at or about 10-10.30 - 11-11.30, according to the time of the previous ¼ pint, or to her waking. ... When the brandy is put into the Asses milk it must not be put in pure or it curdles the milk, but must be mixed first with a teasp. water and then put in. If H.R.H. has been up or woke early, & had the 11.o'cl portion early or is tired & exhausted with the washing etc., or in the 24 hours we have come short of the 1½ pint - it is well to get her to drink another cup of the milk somewhere between the 11.o'cl & the Caviare luncheon at 1. or 2. In this to exercise your own judgement & persuade H.R.H. to drink it when you think it expedient Besides the Asses milk, H.R.H. usually has during the day, a lunch of Caviare ...a meal of fish or game, or soup - one dish, had at 8.o'cl 6 oysters & a poached egg ... Generally (but according to Dr Duncan's daily directions) every other morning ... an especial pill. 2 tablesp Dinneford's magnesia in 1 tablsp lemonade ... the Chlorie Ether to be given 1 tablesp in 1 tablesp of cold water, whenever there is headache, giddiness, excessive pain, depression, may be given at intervals of 2 hours ...", 2 sides 8vo., also two manuscript prescriptions, the first in the hand of and signed by Sims,the second in the hand of and signed by Clayton, each 1 side 8vo., St James Palace headed paper, 11th January 1877 and 29th January
Item Date:
1878
Stock No:
39080
£1250
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GULL
(Sir William Withey, 1816-1890, Physician to Queen Victoria, suspected to be 'Jack the Ripper')
Fine example of one of the autograph prescriptions signed with initials and named "H.R.H. The Duchess of Cambridge",
reading "Soda Bicard 3, Eth Chlor 40 ... 1/4th pint with 3 teaspoonfuls of fresh lemon juice as directed", headed St James's Palace and stamped by the dispenser P. & P. Squire, 10th March
Item Date:
1882
Stock No:
39085
£375
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GULL
(Sir William Withey, 1816-1890, Physician to Queen Victoria, suspected to be ‘Jack the Ripper’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed signed in full (William W. Gull) to “Dear Mr Nettlefold”
thanking him for his “kind note. I should have been glad of an hour’s visitation[?] in your beautiful grounds if I cd have afforded myself the leisure but at this season I am always rather overdone. Lady Gull is away in Guernsey on a visit to her Brother & Sister & to her old home there or she wd join her thanks to mine for your kind invitation. She will not be back so early as the 12 of July. I will send her your note. I am very glad to hear that the boy is getting better. This attack seemed to me clearly attributable [?] to fatigue...”, 2 sides 8vo., place and crest removed, 23rd June
Item Date:
1884
Stock No:
41832
£750
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GUTHRIE
(Frederick, 1833-1886, Scientific Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Bennett,
saying that "Capt Donnelly told me ... that Mr Thistleton Dyer had resigned his post in Dublin, and asked me if I knew any able man ... I of course at once suggested you ... I don't know the remuneration but you see that the duties are light ...", 2 sides 8vo., 108 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill, 29th January
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
4378
£20
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HALES
(John Wesley, 1836-1914, Professor of English Literature at King's College, London till 1903)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred William BENNETT ,
(1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), telling him he has "found a letter about the Gresham College Professorship of Rehetoric, now vacant ... It is appointed to by the Mercer's Side of the Gresham Committee ... amongst the names I find George Palmer 58 Ebury Street", asking if that is Bennett's friend, and for help "with one or all of them ... The appointment is not worth much but it is perpetual and I should like the work", 2 sides 8vo., 1 Oppidans Road, Primrose Hill, N.W., 16th November n.y., c.
laid down on conjugate blank
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
13883
£35
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